It goes without saying that Composition is fundamental to any photography project and every professional assignment. This is particularly true for property, landscape, and architecture captures. But what exactly do we mean by Composition? Just like the El roaring by Jake Elwood’s Chicago apartment every 20 seconds, it’s a term we hear “so often you don’t even notice it”.

Composition is not a tool. Or a setting. Or a parameter. It’s not on your camera - in fact, there’s no “Composition” reference in the index of the new Z7 user manual. It’s not buried in your camera software. Show me the menu command that says “Composition: +/-“ It’s not on your lens. Where is the “Composition: Off-On” activation switch? It’s not in your studio. You can stock lights, backdrops, flags, props, gels, grids, snoots. But you can’t mount “Composition” on your C-Stand. And It’s not in your post-processing software. You can Enhance, Define, Dehaze, Soften, Polarize, Recover, Saturate, Clone, Layer, Filter, or No-Filter-Needed all you want. But there’s no custom preset for “Composition”.

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